Brindle Acorn (XX) (2026) Tobacco Pipe

Founded in 1983 by William "Bill" Ashton-Taylor, who worked as a Dunhill apprentice, the Ashton workshop is lauded for its incredibly high standards of quality and mastery of classic English design principles. Jimmy Craig currently heads the company, having taken up the mantle after Bill's passing in 2009. Since then, he has sustained the Ashton legacy by steadfastly following the founder's philosophy of equally prioritizing all parts of the pipe, and utilizing only the best materials and most pristine finishing.

This Acorn is a trim, elegant offering from Ashton, and exhibits a graceful sense of line, especially throughout the shank and stem. The bowl houses a moderately sized chamber suited for a wide variety of blends and smoking occasions, and it poises pertly at the fore of an elegantly upturned, cylindrical shank joined by a well-bent saddle stem. Said stem is fashioned with brindled vulcanite, featuring swirls of beige and chocolate brown that pair handsomely with the stummel's deep mahogany sandblast.